This Week's Acquisitions
- Anon., Harry Burke, A Story of the Fifth Commandment (SPCK, c. 1878). A young boy disobeys his mother by taking to the sea-faring life, only to be on the receiving end of divine punishment. (eBay)
- Katie Ward, Girl Reading (Scribner, 2011). Using the device of seven imaginary portraits, from 1333 to 2060, the novel imagines the intersection of gender, representation, and reading. (eBay)
- Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things (Penguin, 2014). Adventures of a female botanist in the early-to-mid nineteenth century. (Lift Bridge)